ALLOY NEWS BOX 5 - ARCHIVE, RESTORATION, RELEASING Box 5 is a new company, formed to restore and release classic silent films with new musical scores. The company was founded by Alloy Orchestra director Ken Winokur, and filmmaker Jane Gillooly. The new company has purchased approximately 100 silent films from the Killiam Collection in NY, as well as films from other sources. The new company is currently to making plans to restore and release these films on 35mm and in digital formats.
THE EAGLE Box 5's newest project will be a restored print of Rudolph Valentino's 1925 film THE EAGLE, directed by Clarence Brown (National Velvet). The new 35mm print will be done with the new "High Silver " process, at Cinema Arts in Pennsylvania, by Janice Allen and Michael Kolvek.
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA The first product of Box 5 was the new 35mm print of Phantom of the Opera. This new print attempts to recreate the original color scheme of the 1925 release. Hand coloring, the original two strip Technicolor scenes, and 218 differently tinted scenes combine to make this print an astonishing visual experience. March 15, 2005 (Baltimore) Alloy premiered their newest score for the restored Phantom of the Opera as a special, pre-festival event for the Maryland Film Festival.
FUTURE RELEASES Future releases will include the Rudolph Valentino features: Son of the Sheik, Blood and Sand; and a series of short comedies by Chaplin, Langdon, Our Gang, Arbuckle, Keaton, Turpin, Langdon, Fairbanks, Chase, Bevan, Will Rogers, Hal Roach, Mack Sennett. newsreel footage and many other things.
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